Murdoch Starts Charging for Online Content – Will it Work?
Leading UK newspapers The Times and The Sunday Times, both owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, have announced plans to start charging for online content starting in June. The announcement was made Friday, March 26, on the Times website. News International, the newspapers’ parent company, announced that readers will be offered a day’s use for [...]
5 Simple Tweaks That Will Increase Your Blog Readership
The easiest way to increase the readership of your blog is to … you guessed it …. blog more. But writing takes times, as does reporting. So, if you want to increase the readership of your blog without writing more posts every day, following these tips will help. 1. Headlines make the world go ’round [...]
Stealing The News – When Bloggers Become Plagiarists
Journalism is under fire from all directions. Newspapers are losing circulation and shuting down. Reporters are getting laid off. Profits are bad, and the Internet has turned the news into a commodity. Add to the list of growing problems: plagiarism. Most journalists used to think that bloggers were nothing but plagiarist; taking their reporting and [...]
Free “Journalism Bootcamp” for St. Louis Area Journalism Students
The St. Louis chapter of the Society for Professional Journalist is hosting a “Journalism Bootcamp” on Saturday, Jan. 30 at the SUIE Saint Louis University campus. Registration is over in a few days, so hurry up if you are interested. Seminars offered during the boot camp include: • Covering Higher Education (Kavita Kumar—St. Louis Post-Dispatch) [...]
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